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Re: on Thursday January 16, 2025 @01:32PM (#42729025)
The stereotypes of women that Mulvaney is acting out have been used to belittle and disparage women both now and historically.

How exactly is he "living as a woman"? He's a man calling himself a woman. This is not the same at all.

Re: on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @05:19AM (#42709326)
If Dylan Mulvaney had released a video "Day 1 of being a Negro" which was him sitting there in blackface, munching on fried chicken and watermelon, rapping the n-word, talking about shooting members of a rival gang and acting out other racial stereotypes - would you be celebrating his offensive caricature of a black man as challenging racism?

If not, why do you believe that his "Days of Girlhood" video series, where he performs sexist stereotypes of women while declaring himself to be a woman, is challenging the social expectations imposed upon women and girls?

Re: on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @03:15AM (#42708579)
Thing is, it's a test of obedience to woke dogma. You're expected to ignore the man you see before you, and proclaim that he's a woman. Even if you don't believe it, which most do not.

This is apparently the polite thing to do. But using "preferred pronouns" is not courtesy, it's conditioning.

"Trans rights" is fundamentally about compelling people to participate in a lie.

Re:Contra Paul Graham on Wokeness on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @07:59PM (#42706088)
It's refreshing to read this perspective here. Thank you for providing a critical voice and seeing this movement for what it really is.